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    Honors for Emerging Form

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com October 1, 2022

    For the last few years, my wonderful friend Christie Aschwanden and I have been co-hosting a podcast on creative …

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    My favorite poems? Of my own and someone else’s?

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com October 1, 2022

    Something in me recoils at the word favorite–I have so many favorites. I have what we call in my …

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    Meeting Grief with More Love

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com September 27, 2022

    Where to go when our heart is raw and our limbs are tired? When our bones and brittle and …

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    “Simple Tools” excerpted in Book Riot

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com September 19, 2022

    What a sweet surprise when a friend sent me a link to this article in Book Riot that quotes …

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    “Big” on Arizona Public Radio

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com September 19, 2022

    A great new poetry audio program kicked off with one of Rosemerry’s poems. Let’s hear it for “Poetry Snaps!” …

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    Online Poetry Weekend Retreat March 11 & 12, 2023

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com September 19, 2022

    Your perspective matters. How you see the world—the way you meet even the smallest moment—affects everyone and everything in …

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    Three Poems in ONE ART, 9/11/22

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com September 11, 2022

    How might openness, connection and compassion grow from grief? That’s what I explore in three poems published today in …

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    It’s No Small Thing to Trust Yourself

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com September 2, 2022

    The journey of self-compassion can be one of the hardest journeys of all. And I love the ways that …

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    What Hope Looks Like

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com September 2, 2022

    How does hope influence our lives? I think about how Vincent van Gogh put so much hope into the …

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    Where Do We Put Our Focus?

    by rosemerryt@gmail.com September 2, 2022

    It matters where we put our attention. That’s what I consider in this poem, “Stitching It Together,” published in …

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  • Two Thousand Three Hundred Forty May 22, 2026
      That’s how many school lunchesI’ve made her, more or less, sincethat first day she held my hand and we stood on the grass outside the elementary schoolbefore the first bell rang. Her hair was blonde then, mine not gray. I’m not crying as I make herlunch this morning. Dilled bean and rice salad. Fresh blackberries. Pretzel sticks. Honeycrisp apples […]

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